Sat 2/12 @ 6PM
Like many others, Lorain’s FireFish festival had to punt over the last couple of years, skipping 2020 and coming back in 2021 with a series of smaller events rather than one big crowded one. The good news is that the full-scale festival is coming back on September 17, 2022. Even better news is that FireFish Arts will continue to present an ongoing series of arts-related events throughout the year, involving various sectors of the Lorain community.
They start this week with “Patterns of Time,” an outdoor digital video projection presentation by New media artist artist Ross Bochnek, based on clothing and textiles featured at Lorain’s annual International festival representing the many ethnic and cultural groups in Lorain.
“’Patterns of Time’ creates a dancing digital fabric stitched and woven together into a geometric transformation,” says their press release. “Creating an almost dizzying incandescence, ‘Patterns of Time’ reflects on both the past and the future of Lorain’s International City.” Much of the source material was scanned from the Lorain Historical Society’s archives, including 1970s era parades in downtown Lorain.
“Patterns of Time” will be projected after dark on the corner of Broadway Avenue and 7th Street for three weekends in February, starting on Saturday February 12 when there’ll be a chance for visitors to help create the final video to be shown on the next two weekend from the windows of BRIAR (Black River Innovative Artist Residence). Bochnek will direct them in controlling the digital kaleidoscope as the video is shown on the side of a five-story building.
FireFish Arts will release a full calendar of 2022 events sometime this month.